Battlefield 3 Details Leaked

[Yukiism]

I really really really hope BF3 will even FAIL more then 2142 did.

[vanilla]

Wouldn't it be better to hope for the best and not the worst? Well, I am hoping for the best cause BF is a hell lot of fun to play.

[Vreki]

Wouldn't it be better to hope for the best and not the worst? Well, I am hoping for the best cause BF is a hell lot of fun to play.

Yes, but a great BF3 would collide with my "Never buy EA again" decision.
It will be much easier to stear clear of EA if they only release crap games

[Tetris L]

I seem to remember something simular happening with bf2142 where a video was 'leaked' before it was meant to be. If this info is true then you would have thought ea/dice would have learnt with the bf2142 incident.

It happens all the time in the gaming industry. It's hard to keep information confidential when you deal with hundreds of people in-house and in affiliated media partners. People in media, communications and marketing tend to be chatty, you know.

But then, marketing information leaking early usually doesn't do much harm. Quite the opposite. In the very early stage of game development it can be better to "release" (deliberately leak) unconfirmed information than to make official announcements. Many game companies have learned the hard way that officially released details about a new game makes them look bad if the game is delayed or redesigned. But if you never said anything official, nobody can blame you.

Now, a leak of the game code itself is a whole different league (pun intended :)). And even that happens (Unreal 2, Doom 3, Half Life 2, Lineage 2, ...).

[FPS[SONIC]]

I really really really hope BF3 will even FAIL more then 2142 did.

And why are you here then? Perhaps you were just having a bad moment. This is a place to discuss BF2142, but you really wish for the next installment to fail. That is baffling to me.

Wouldn't it be better to hope for the best and not the worst? Well, I am hoping for the best cause BF is a hell lot of fun to play.

Exactly. :yay:

Yes, but a great BF3 would collide with my "Never buy EA again" decision.
It will be much easier to stear clear of EA if they only release crap games

True, true. I will not buy any EA game other than a Battlefield series game. I've had enough of their shenanigans. They've turded on us every possible opportunity. DICE to me is a different story. But, since they've partnered with the evil overlords I'm a lot more watchful.

Those stats from the Game Spy 'archive' are still valid. They do change and pretty closely match Game Monitor's results, too. The overwhelming winner is Half-Life.

It seems like modded content rules the day as there are a ton of HL servers and players. I sure wish the game devs would take note of this as so much revenue comes from server rentals. You'd think they'd come up with a new strat to fully endorse the modding community and thus keep a nice constant flow of revenue available.

The sad part is to see that BF2 has twice as many active players as BF2142. But, I'm one of those BF2142 fans who really hasn't been playing BF2142 lately because it is stale after hundreds & hundreds of hours of game play. I for one would like to get new content every 3-4 months and would be willing to pay for it.

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[Erhardt]

I really really really hope BF3 will even FAIL more then 2142 did.

Pfft... I should live so long as to reap the kind of money 2142's "failure" produced.

I for one would like to get new content every 3-4 months and would be willing to pay for it.

Same here. I'd be very willing to drop $10 into the 2142 bucket every quarter for a few new maps. Unlocks would be nice too, but I don't know how much more they can really add there without going overboard into silliness.

And of course free would always be better, but again, I'll be happy enough to pay if that's the way they want to do it. I've certainly gotten far more than my money's worth out of the game to date, so another investment would only further that along.

[D3lit3]

We don't comment on rumors or speculation. Currently announced titles from DICE are Battlefield Bad Company and Mirror's Edge, you'll hear from us officially as soon as we have anything further to announce. For any future announcements regarding Battlefield keep an eye on www.battlefield.com.

Good job hiding the truth DICE.

[Yukiism]

And why are you here then? Perhaps you were just having a bad moment. This is a place to discuss BF2142, but you really wish for the next installment to fail. That is baffling to me.

Because WE are getting ripped off again by DICE! Having to wait 3 months for a patch that's in beta testing and only fixed some visuals of a pool! **** me, that's straight ******** they haven't been looking 3 months for some improvement on a pool.

No updates on BF2 or 2142 in that time being, they are just trying to rush their rip-off games and try to break the world record of bringing out patches. BF2142 and BF2 will get left out in the cold with ( i'm sure ) 1.40 being the last patch ever for 2142.

If all that information on BF3 is real, i wouldn't be buying it. Only the graphics will be awesome, but that's all. And you still have Crysis for beautiful graphics. BF3 will only just be a further improved version of 2142 and BF2, with a few new features.....great.....

Only 2 factions? Well, hooray! NOT!!!!
37 new weapons? Sniper Decoy, Stabiliser, NS boots thingies all over again. In other words, useless weapons that no one will ever use.
And i can go on with that new Battalion thing too, but never mind.


Although i would like DICE to prove me wrong there, but i really think they won't...

[vanilla]

First, you are getting all excited about a rumor which is not a good start.
Second, it seems that you are finished with BF anyway. What is there more to want then a polished, bug free and nice-to-the-eye BF3? I dunno, but I certainly hope they keep doing the same gameplay. Even if the rumor is true, we don't know anything about weapons, vehicles, maps or unlocks. So it's way to early to get all messed up about it. Yes, I don't know nothing about this as everyone here, but I think you shouldn't judge something that you haven't seen yet. As said before, if true, let's hope for the best and 50 good spend dollars.

[Biotech2142]

Many complaints about BF series are a rip of money....but most of these complainers play it at least 10 hrs weekly and/or even more than any other game console or PC game they own.

If it is so bad, then why they occupy the top 10 of most played FPS since release?

Only an hypocrite or some (name a FPS here) fan-boy would say that the BF series are bad.

[The_Eliminator]

First, you are getting all excited about a rumor which is not a good start.
Second, it seems that you are finished with BF anyway. What is there more to want then a polished, bug free and nice-to-the-eye BF3? I dunno, but I certainly hope they keep doing the same gameplay. Even if the rumor is true, we don't know anything about weapons, vehicles, maps or unlocks. So it's way to early to get all messed up about it. Yes, I don't know nothing about this as everyone here, but I think you shouldn't judge something that you haven't seen yet. As said before, if true, let's hope for the best and 50 good spend dollars.

Could at least have said £20

[FPS[SONIC]]

Well, I'm sorry some folks feel hostile towards DICE. They've brought me hours-upon-hours of enjoyment, so I'm actually quite fond of them.

I work as part of a development team so I'm well acquainted with the conflict which arises when 'the business' forces you do do things which will bring in additional revenue vs. making existing things nicer. It's tough and I bet that most of DICE's dev staff are working on another project and they do more than just Battlefield franchise development.

I'm willing to give them some slack in the hopes that they'll get around to working on the projects I care about. If they don't someone else will and they will have lost a once-dedicated fanboy.

I hope that they are taking the best of all BF games and rolling it into a next-gen Battlefield which picks up where BF2 leaves off. With that hope, patience is a virtue which will serve me well and I hope that others might develop it also.

DICE, we're counting on you. Don't let us down. :salute:

[Drewsly]

i hope this is true i really injoy the battlefeild series

[Vreki]

Many complaints about BF series are a rip of money....but most of these complainers play it at least 10 hrs weekly and/or even more than any other game console or PC game they own.

Only an hypocrite or some (name a FPS here) fan-boy would say that the BF series are bad.

The BF series are not bad, but:

• Poor support and feedback on bug reports
• In game ads (which gave us nothing and became rather blatant)
• The latests EADM stunt

All add up in my black book.

[Yukiism]

Is it me or don't i get the point of Stamina's post? Is he talking to me or something?

I think you guys get me all wrong, so here's my point again:

I would LIKE to have a great Battlefield game, but i don't trust DICE they would do a great job. I used to be a DICE fanboy. But since their patch 1.41 beta prank, i don't trust them anymore and creating a great game. Look at the stats of Gamespy and look at them at 5, 10000 at peak. But that's the average of course.

Vreki pretty much sums up all the big points here and he is right! You must a very naive DICE fanboy to say he isn't right.

Also it's quite sad for sonicpixel that he says: ''Don't let us down DICE''
Well, i'm pretty sure they won't do that Anyone forgot about how BF2 would have been like? With penetratable walls and stuff and with laser designating.....all left out. Even on some of the retail boxes you can find that the game supports the penetratable walls :laugh: